Edinburgh Napier University

  This book chapter will explore the meaning of recovery in relation to rights, social inclusion and stigma. The development and evaluation of recovery principles in mental health nursing. The chapter is aimed at mental health student nurses and will help readers to describe the concept of recovery and draw distinctions between the different ways in which the term is used. Explain the relationships that exists between recovery, rights and social inclusion, and identify policy and practice initiatives that incorporate these values into the provision of mental health care.
The chapter encourages readers to appraise their own recovery attributes and assess the recovery focus of services using frameworks and indicators and identify and appraise a number of tools and strategies for supporting people to prepare recovery focused care plans.
The chapter examines co-production in mental health care and education and describes the purpose, approach and impact of partnership and inclusion through development like recovery colleges.